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In surprise vote, European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We could garden and farm by ourselves and the communities we can make, staying as close to nature as possible, without tilling, irrigating, or using chemicals, and by using mulch and some native plants instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The vote was on restoring 20% of the EUs most damaged landscapes until 2035. This is impossible to do with a small little garden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Its the farmers that oppose both plans though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was just talking about an alternative to those farmers. The whole thread was about those farmers, not the vote. If they want to restore the damaged landscapes, they could leave that to us as well, because we could cover the damaged landscapes with humanure compost that will break down most toxins. (Kitchen scraps also go into humanure compost.)

Also, besides mulch and native plants, we could grow drought-tolerant crops instead of irrigating, and to the degree that we can make gardener communities, we can scale up our gardens to farms.